Drilled

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Subscribers: 1314
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 247

Svein Medhus
 Jan 28, 2022
great stuff. so important.

Mingmar
 Aug 18, 2021
well researched and informative

Billy
 Apr 3, 2021
A great source for up to date climate news and data as well as informative dives into climate wrongs of the past.

Abbie
 Sep 12, 2020
Very well-researched and well-produced podcast on the history and implications of fossil fuels and global warming/climate change. Super interesting "true crime" format!

Niall
 Jul 6, 2020
Very informative on Battle over climate change


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 May 21, 2019


 Mar 9, 2019

svein
 Jan 10, 2019
excellent on climate change and how the oil lobby changed the public opinion .

Description

Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. Hosted and reported by award-winning investigative climate journalists and led by Amy Westervelt, each season unravels new evidence of deception, disinformation, and the power structures keeping real climate solutions out of reach.

Season 15 coming April 2026.


Episode Date
10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?
Mar 03, 2026
From Question Everything: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)
Feb 26, 2026
Just Because the U.S. Says It's Legal Doesn't Make It So: Companies Trading in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk
Feb 09, 2026
How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression
Feb 03, 2026
A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple
Feb 02, 2026
Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"
Jan 20, 2026
Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire
Jan 12, 2026
The Norwegian Paradox: Norway's Fossil Fuel Dilemma
Dec 29, 2025
How Climate Activists Successfully Fight Obstruction
Dec 28, 2025
How Litigation Works to Fight Climate Obstruction
Dec 10, 2025
Drlling Deep: Uruguay's Renewable Energy System with Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Dec 02, 2025
COP Out: What the Heck Happened at COP30?
Nov 25, 2025
How and Why Climate Adaptation Measures Get Blocked
Nov 25, 2025
Carbon Bros Mailbag: Navigating Traditional Male Spaces and the Benefits of Solidarity
Nov 24, 2025
Drilling Deep: Jessica Green on Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
Nov 17, 2025
The Corruption of COP: Inside Climate Obstruction at the UN
Nov 10, 2025
Norway Beyond Oil: Climate, Policy, Society
Nov 05, 2025
How Climate Obstruction Works at the Local Level
Nov 04, 2025
Climate Obstruction in the Global South
Oct 29, 2025
Challenging the Narratives
Oct 27, 2025
Drilling Deep: Karen House on Saudi Arabia Under Mohammed bin Salman
Oct 25, 2025
Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity
Oct 24, 2025
Petroganda: How the Oil Industry Is Shaping Norway's Politics and Culture
Oct 22, 2025
How the Animal Agriculture Industry Blocks Methane Regulation
Oct 21, 2025
How the Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Industries Block Climate Policy
Oct 14, 2025
Introducing The Black Thread: The Norwegians
Oct 13, 2025
Facing Climate Despair: How to Cope with Wen Stephenson
Oct 12, 2025
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action
Oct 07, 2025
How The Media Drives Climate Obstruction
Oct 03, 2025
Why Misinformation Works: The Psychology Behind Climate Disinformation
Sep 30, 2025
How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Fuels Climate Denial
Sep 23, 2025
Why Political Will is the Real Barrier to Climate Action
Sep 16, 2025
Drilling Deep: The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence with Casey Michel
Sep 12, 2025
The "Carbon Dominance" Strategy Behind Trump's Anti-Renewables Actions
Sep 08, 2025
Integration: Bringing Men Into the Climate Movement
Sep 05, 2025
Why Is the Fossil Fuel Industry Funding Anti-Trans Politics?
Aug 22, 2025
The SLAPP Heard 'Round the World: Standing Rock Verdict
Aug 19, 2025
Climate Hysteria and “Boy Math”: Masculinity, Tech Fixes, and Gendered Climate Solutions
Aug 17, 2025
Sacred Sites: Defending Indigenous Spaces
Aug 14, 2025
How "Energy Dominance" Became a Gendered Climate Narrative
Aug 01, 2025
The Testosterone Pipeline: How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Denial
Jul 27, 2025
Back to the Water: Pipeline Impacts and Indigenous Concerns
Jul 22, 2025
Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean | A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)
Jul 08, 2025
Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism and Media Bias
Jul 07, 2025
Coming Soon: Carbon Bros—Men and Climate Denial in America
Jun 26, 2025
The Charge: What Greenpeace Is Accused Of
Jun 25, 2025
The Trial Begins: Jury Selection
Jun 10, 2025
How We Got Here: Standing Rock, Greenpeace, and the $666 Million Lawsuit
Jun 03, 2025
"All Hell Breaks Loose": How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town
May 30, 2025
Coming Soon: SLAPP'D—Corporate Power vs. Indigenous Rights
May 22, 2025
Malcolm Harris on Realism and Radical Possibilities in the Climate Crisis
May 20, 2025
From Damages: New Evidence and Updates on U.S. Climate Liability Cases
May 16, 2025
How the U.S. Helped the World Label Environmentalists as "Terrorists"
May 07, 2025
Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere
Mar 29, 2025
New Research on Fossil Fuel Sponsored Content and Media Misleading Practices
Mar 21, 2025
Shell’s Climate Case: The Win, the Loss, and What It Means for Future Global Climate Litigation
Dec 02, 2024
From Fuel to Fork: How the Oil and Gas Industry Drives Food-Based Emissions
Nov 12, 2024
How Climate Language Shapes Climate Politics with Genevieve Guenther
Oct 01, 2024
Climate Week 2024: Taking on the Mad Men of Big Oil
Sep 24, 2024
How Fossil-Funded University Research Shapes Climate Policy
Sep 20, 2024
Climate and Project 2025: Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt on Spill
Sep 09, 2024
The Battle Over the Clean Air Act
Aug 15, 2024
How Big Oil Sold a “Climate Solution” and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill
Jul 30, 2024
Silencing Activists: How an El Savador Cold Case Murder Became a Tool to Criminalize Activism
Jul 17, 2024
From Damages: Could Oil Companies Be Charged with Murder?
Jul 09, 2024
The Great “Greening” of LNG: How Fossil Fuel Lobbying Fuels Climate Delay
Jul 03, 2024
How Management Consultancies Data-Wash Climate Solutions
Jun 25, 2024
The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism
May 18, 2024
Climate News Update: New Carbon Majors Report and Swiss Elders' Historic Win
Apr 16, 2024
Sainte-Soline and the Government Crackdown on France’s Earth Uprisings
Apr 03, 2024
The United States Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained
Mar 20, 2024
Shell, Oil Colonialism, and the Ongoing Struggle of Nigeria’s Environmental Activists
Mar 05, 2024
What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond
Feb 20, 2024
Introducing: Hazard NYC
Feb 19, 2024
The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Protest with Dana R. Fisher
Feb 13, 2024
The "EcoTerrorist" Panic
Jan 31, 2024
Meet the United Nations' First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders
Jan 23, 2024
How UK Courts Became the New Battleground for Climate Protest
Jan 16, 2024
What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Dec 19, 2023
Seven Years Later: The Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Impact Statement
Dec 07, 2023
Modern-Day Bead Trading: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Co-opts Indigenous Protest in Canada
Dec 05, 2023
Living on the Frontlines of War and Climate Crisis: Abeer Butmeh in Palestine
Nov 14, 2023
Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade on Africa, Climate, and Free Speech
Nov 01, 2023
The Tomato Soup “Controversy”: Do Disruptive Climate Protests Actually Work?
Oct 17, 2023
Why Indigenous Land Defenders Face Repression
Oct 10, 2023
Guyana Update: Gas to Energy for Guyana, or Problem to Profit for Exxon?
Oct 09, 2023
Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Fingerpaint
Oct 03, 2023
Living with Loss: Climate Damage in Nigeria
Sep 26, 2023
How Think Tanks Paved the Way to Criminalize Climate Protest
Sep 19, 2023
Vietnam's Tax Evasion Charges Are Used to Jail Climate Activists
Sep 11, 2023
Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest
Sep 05, 2023
Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India
Aug 29, 2023
The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
Aug 29, 2023
How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest, with Evlondo Cooper
Aug 22, 2023
Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat
Aug 15, 2023
Herb, Ep 3: The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case
Aug 01, 2023
Herb, Ep 2: A Legal Strategy
Jul 25, 2023
Herb, Ep 1: The Panic
Jul 18, 2023
Industry Backlash to Grassroots Organizing in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
Jun 20, 2023
The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA
Jun 13, 2023
Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration
May 30, 2023
Thea Riofrancos on Tackling Transition and Consumption
May 23, 2023
S8 Bonus: A Verdict
May 09, 2023
S8 Ep8 | The Turning Point
May 02, 2023
S8 Ep7 | The Global Oil Rush
Apr 25, 2023
S8 Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing
Apr 18, 2023
S8 Ep5 | On Global Poverty and Global Warming
Apr 11, 2023
S8 Ep4 | Constitutional Violation
Apr 04, 2023
S8 Ep3 | Unlimited Liability
Mar 28, 2023
S8 Ep2 | The Contract
Mar 21, 2023
S8 Ep1 | The Boom
Mar 14, 2023
New Season Coming Soon: Light, Sweet Crude
Feb 28, 2023
Life in a Ticking Carbon Bomb
Jan 10, 2023
Rep Ro Khanna on the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinfo Investigation and a Whole New Batch of Documents
Dec 20, 2022
First Climate RICO Filed + James Hansen Sues EPA
Dec 06, 2022
Loss and Damage, Minus the Fossil Fuels As Development Myth
Nov 22, 2022
Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP27?
Nov 08, 2022
COP 27 Will Be a Climate Disinformation Inflection Point: Here's How to Neutralize It
Oct 26, 2022
Universities Are Starting to Say No to Fossil Fuel Funding
Oct 18, 2022
Widening the Lens of Accountability, with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffrey Supran, and Jessica Wentz
Oct 07, 2022
Three Congressional Hearings on Climate Disinfo Bring New Industry Documents to Light
Sep 20, 2022
West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction
Sep 13, 2022
SCOTUS Will Continue to Weigh in On Climate: Here's What's Coming Next
Aug 23, 2022
A New Front in Climate Obstructionism: State Treasurers?
Aug 16, 2022
Here's What the IPCC Report Actually Said About Carbon Dioxide Removal
Jul 12, 2022
West Virginia v EPA : Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next
Jun 28, 2022
The "Culture War" Embraces Climate
Jun 21, 2022
As a Supreme Court Decision Hanging in the Balance, a Novel Argument: Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under TSCA
Jun 16, 2022
S6 Bonus: Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?
Jun 14, 2022
False Friends of the Court: Why Every Rightwing Think Tank Has an Amicus Program, with Senator Whitehouse
Jun 07, 2022
S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
May 25, 2022
Bonus: As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Morrison's "Gas-Fired Recovery," Carbon Capture, and Greenwashing
May 19, 2022
S6, Part 2 | Ep 4: Epic Astroturfing
May 17, 2022
S6, Part2 | Ep3: Anatomy of a Front Group
May 03, 2022
S6, Part 2 | Ep 2: The New Climate Villains
Apr 26, 2022
S6, Part 2 | Ep 1: A Busload of COVID
Apr 19, 2022
Climate One Collaboration: Breaking Down Climate Misinformation
Apr 15, 2022
Conflicts of Interest, Debunking Demand, Media Manipulation & More | IPCC Report, Part One
Apr 09, 2022
Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tuhoe Perspective
Mar 31, 2022
A Landmark Ruling in Ecuador
Mar 17, 2022
Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest v. The Mine
Mar 11, 2022
West Virginia v EPA and What It Means for Climate Policy
Mar 03, 2022
A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the U.S.
Feb 24, 2022
Drilled Presents: Damages
Feb 18, 2022
The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay, with Lisa Graves
Feb 12, 2022
An Update on the Big U.S. Youth Climate Lawsuit
Jan 28, 2022
Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to Texas Supreme Court
Jan 21, 2022
Redefining Environmentalists
Jan 14, 2022
Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis
Jan 07, 2022
Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama
Dec 17, 2021
The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction
Dec 10, 2021
One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other
Dec 07, 2021
Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking & Plastic
Nov 26, 2021
Melissa Aronczyk on the History of Greenwashing
Nov 19, 2021
The ABCs of Oil | Katie Worth on the State of Climate Education in the U.S.
Nov 05, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | So... What Do We Do About This?
Oct 29, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ben Franta Talks to Us About Big Oil on Campus
Oct 22, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 4: We're Going Streaking
Oct 15, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 3: High School
Oct 08, 2021
S5 Update: Donziger Sentenced to Six Months in Jail
Oct 03, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 2: Elementary School
Oct 01, 2021
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 1: First Day of School
Sep 24, 2021
Drilled + Earther Present: The ABCs of Big Oil
Sep 13, 2021
S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 5: Whack-a-Mole
Sep 13, 2021
S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 4: Keeping Oil Alive
Aug 06, 2021
S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 3: And Then There Was Covid...
Jul 30, 2021
S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep2: Erasing the Imaginary Line
Jul 23, 2021
S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 1: Don't Mess with Texas
Jul 16, 2021
Welcome to S6: The Bridge to Nowhere
Jun 17, 2021
Update: Donziger's Trial in New York
May 27, 2021
Climate Guilt, Brought to You by Big Oil
May 17, 2021
New Study: The Health Impacts of the Coal-to-Gas Transition
May 11, 2021
Rep Ro Khanna on Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Apr 22, 2021
S5 Update: Latest on Donziger's Case
Apr 17, 2021
Corporate Personhood? What About Ecosystem Personhood
Apr 10, 2021
Infrastructure Week! Build Back Better, THRIVE, and More with Kaniela Ing
Mar 31, 2021
All Eyes on Weymouth as FERC Signals Interest in Environmental Justice
Mar 27, 2021
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Undermining Free Speech
Mar 20, 2021
Frackalachia and the Great Fracking Jobs Myth
Mar 12, 2021
The API Was Pushing Climate Denial Way Earlier Than Anyone Thought
Mar 05, 2021
S5 Ep 11 | ¿Ahora Que?
Dec 19, 2020
S5 Ep 10 | The Kill Step
Dec 11, 2020
S5 Ep9 | The Judge
Dec 04, 2020
S5 Ep 8 | Damages
Nov 20, 2020
S5 Ep7 | The Linchpin
Nov 13, 2020
Big Oil's Bad Bet on Plastic
Nov 06, 2020
Update: Donziger Headed to Trial with No Representation
Nov 06, 2020
S5 Ep6 | A Verdict and a New Charge
Oct 30, 2020
S5 Ep5 | The Big Guns
Oct 23, 2020
S5 Ep4 | The Secret Tribunal
Oct 16, 2020
S5 Ep3 | The Trial
Oct 09, 2020
S5 Ep2 | The Colonizers
Oct 02, 2020
S5 Ep1 | Lockdown
Sep 25, 2020
Big Oil Fighting Divestment + Sneak Preview of S5!
Aug 22, 2020
That Ohio Utility Corruption Scandal, with Leah Stokes
Aug 01, 2020
A Proposed Fossil Fuel Ad Ban in The Netherlands
Jul 14, 2020
Pioneering Fracking Company Chesapeake Energy Goes Bust
Jun 30, 2020
Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits
Jun 26, 2020
Big Oil's Multi-Billion-Dollar Blind Spot
Jun 18, 2020
From Hot Take: Yes, We Still Need to Talk About Climate
Jun 14, 2020
Naomi Klein on "Disaster Capitalism" in America
Jun 07, 2020
New Investigation Finds Shell Directly Funded Climate Denial
May 29, 2020
From Hot Take: Why the GOP's "Climate Lockdown" Narrative is Wrong
May 22, 2020
The Death of Fred Singer and the Endurance of Climate Deniers
May 19, 2020
A Lawsuit Could Force FERC to Consider Climate Impacts of New Oil and Gas Projects
May 09, 2020
What Planet of the Humans Gets Wrong About Climate Change
Apr 29, 2020
Earth Day in Louisiana: A Petro-state Fights Back
Apr 22, 2020
Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
Apr 22, 2020
How Big Oil is Using COVID-19 to Push Plastic
Apr 16, 2020
Held Hostage by Fracking: Colorado Seniors Shelter In Place
Apr 15, 2020
New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
Apr 07, 2020
Texas Shale Refineries Release "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane Emissions
Apr 03, 2020
Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Oppose a Shale Gas Bailout
Apr 01, 2020
How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mar 28, 2020
From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
Mar 25, 2020
Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role
Feb 29, 2020
Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR
Feb 28, 2020
The Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
Feb 27, 2020
The Origins of Corporate PR Manipulation
Feb 25, 2020
Guardian Bans Fossil Fuel Ads: Emily Atkin Talks with CEO Anna Bateson
Feb 18, 2020
Oil Slick, Part 2: False Equivalence and Free Speech
Feb 11, 2020
Oil Slick, Part 1: Mobil's PR Mastermind and the Rise of the Corporate Persona
Feb 04, 2020
Psychological Warfare and Big Oil
Jan 28, 2020
The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle
Jan 21, 2020
The Father of Public Relations
Jan 21, 2020
Coming Soon: The Mad Men of Climate Denial
Dec 05, 2019
Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice
Nov 28, 2019
ExxonMobil NY Fraud Trial Recap: What the Verdict Means for Big Oil
Nov 08, 2019
Fake Reporters and Energy Blogs: How Big Oil Spins Climate News
Sep 03, 2019
Big Oil Ramps Up PR Spend and Oil Production
Aug 15, 2019
Facing Extinction
May 20, 2019
David vs. Goliath
May 13, 2019
Taking Big Oil to Court
May 06, 2019
Two Lawsuits, One Industry: Crab Fishermen Take on Big Oil
Apr 29, 2019
West Coast Crab Fisheries Face a Shaky Future
Apr 22, 2019
West Coast Crab Fishermen vs. Big Oil
Apr 22, 2019
Coming Soon: Hot Water
Apr 03, 2019
Big Oil’s First Amendment Defense: Can Climate Denial Be Protected Speech?
Feb 05, 2019
Winning the War: Fighting Back Against Decades of Climate Delay
Oct 09, 2018
Climate Denial Campaigns So Successful They’re Now in Court
Oct 02, 2018
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
Sep 25, 2018
Shaping Culture and Faith: How Big Oil Influenced Climate Conversations
Sep 18, 2018
Weaponizing False Equivalence
Sep 11, 2018
The Turn: How Big Oil Shifted from Innovation to Climate Denial
Sep 04, 2018
The Bell Labs of Energy: How Exxon Led Early Climate Research
Aug 29, 2018
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty
Aug 28, 2018
Drilled: A True Crime Podcast About Climate Change
May 28, 2018